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Big Time Pictoral Close Reading

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Sep 222016
 

WWF

Pictured here is a plot of trees in the shape of lungs. The trees go along with the set of lungs because trees are what give us oxygen to breathe, as we all know. Keeping this in mind, we can see that part of one of the lungs is being torn down, just like we’ve torn down and destroyed a great deal of all of the forests all over the world. The image relates to the problem because the picture of the lungs stands for our own lungs, and as the forrest is destroyed, our source of fresh air is also being devastated.

Sep 202016
 

All throughout this week, I’ve been trying to think of ways that i can write about what i was originally thinking. That would be, the importance of decision making throughout our lives. This topic led me to a book about propaganda and how politics, the media, and theories regarding different aspects of life help to guide us on what decisions we make, especially when it comes to voting.

Well, i think i’ve come up with the ultimate conspiracy theory about Hillary Clinton that seems negative at first but may in fact persuade me and other leftist non supporters of hers to vote for her. The conspiracy has to do with her failing health.

As a hatter of the establishment “democratic party”, in which i believe strongly that the DNC along with HC and her charity, rigged the primary against Bernie Sanders so that she would win while utilizing serious voter suppression, I find a lot of logic in many conspiracies against the democratic nominee. among these conspiracies is one about her failing health. Now i’ve heard news programs on 1290AM WJNO, which happens to be a right winged conservative news program on the radio, talk about HC’s most recent public medical incident. After weeks and weeks of mainly right winged conservative suggesting that HC’s health is failing and may be unfit to hold the office of president, she took a major stumble on camera while entering a van. The footage is incredibly convincing that she has some serious health condition that may very possibly impact her as she is our commander in chief, assuming that she wins the race for president. with the incredibly low percentage rate of voters in the united states feeling that HC is a trustworthy candidate for president, i’ve read in an article on Red Alert Politics that many people on both the right and left feel that many conspiracy theories about HC are actually more believable than HC herself. the idea that she may have more serious medical condition(s) than the pneumonia that her campaign has been saying, is becoming more and more real to a number of voters. After all, there are serious marks against her trustworthiness when it comes to lies she has told to congress about her email server (wether it is important or not, she absolutely lied to congress about “classified information”, along with numerous pieces of evidence regarding bengazi, along with her overall flip flopping on important social issues like gay rights and liberties taken away from African Americans through oppressive laws that she supported and were put in place when her husband was president, not to mention all of the trade deals for weapons that coincided directly with donations from foreign countries to her political foundation that proves that we are making a fortune of the conflicts overseas… I won’t get into this all now).

Anyway, the conspiracy theory regarding her failing health is what i will be focusing on because it boils down to a lot more simpler fact: Hillary Clinton may be extremely close to dying, and it may be her hail marry. Her final attempt to make everything right, as she has most obviously had to sacrifice many of her personal ideals in order to further her political career.

Like many other “conspiracy theories”, it’s far fetched. It may not be true. After all, Hillary Clinton is only 69 years old. But 69 years is no spring chicken. In fact, there have been a large number of famous individuals that have died, just in 2016, at relatively young ages (as in at or close to 69). Therefore, is it not crazy to think that Hillary Clinton may have some fatal illness that will take her within the next few years? that is not crazy to me. It is this reason that gives me a half hearted hope for a hillary clinton precedency (which is a far more and far stronger hope than i had before i came upon this idea). Before now, i have thought that hillary clinton is working for hillary clinton and those corporations and foreign countries that have helped to put her at the top. It is this idea that makes me and a lot of other anti hilary voters (especially millenials) infuriated because i have felt that all she will do at the top is put her donors first and ensure that crony capitalism and a war oriented nation prevails throughout the next generations. While this, to me, is a totally realistic opinion of someone who isn’t counting herself out, given the past 20 or so years of political positioning, the idea that she may be on her last leg gives me hope that her presidency may actually be a giant F U to her unfair and unapologetic political donors, be it large american corporation dodging taxes or the female and LGBT oppressive regimes that have positioned her at the top through gigantic campaign contributions and contributions to her private “Hillary Victory Fund”. Maybe, just maybe, her values have stayed secure in her heart, as i can’t imagine my own growing too far from my own, throughout an incredibly shady political career. Perhaps, in her final years, she will do true good for her constituents.

I’ve read a few articles in the past that i need to find (or find equivalents of) that suggests that there is an even bigger conspiracy theory regarding the office of president that has been around ever since JFK has been in office (and assassinated for his beginning of opening the theory wide for all of the nation to see). This conspiracy is that there is something, or someone, or some people, that are completely in control of our nation. they control the media, they control the social issues, they create social problems, and right now, they control the race of the presidency. The most evident example of this conspiracy theory is President Obama’s entire presidency. When Barack was running in 2008, he ran on the promise of change. He was a young and fresh man to the political stage and he took the presidency with suave and swagger, not knowing completely of the volatile nature of the office.

this volatile nature can be imagined especially when thinking of michelle obama’s speech during the Democratic convention in 2016 when she said that her and Barak’s first and foremost goal was to make sure that their children were not put in harms way. She of course described the difficulties of being the “first children and family” to the president of the united states, but it could also reference their fear of losing their lives or their children’s lives during the obama presidency because of Barak’s position on some specific areas. they were doing the best that they could for their nation, while also adhering to some serious rules regulating what exactly he stood for, in some areas.

Anyway, the people loved this senator from chicago because he spoke of change. Social change, economic change, and international change. These were the topics of concern for that day, and they are even more so the topics of concern today. now at the end of his presidency, we find ourselves in a somewhat better place economically, but socially and internationally, we have dug ourselves deeper into volatile situations. perhaps some of this has to do with our economic standing, but i cannot see how it all does. Yes we know that war makes money. It has been proven in every war since WWI that we make money on war. but this can’t be the only thing in the world that promotes real and substantial economic growth. Why can’t positive changes socially help us to make economic gains? it is because it costs more money from other sources, that is large multination corporations and giant hedge fund managers and big time CEOs of huge corporations and banks.

We are making money on war right now. We are literally selling weapons to ISIS. We could possibly halt ISIS all together by invoking a weapons embargo. whether this would work or not, we would stop making money on the destruction that is going on in the east. Therefore, we keep selling. BUT if hillary clinton has nothing to lose, and because she has so much experience in dealing with these atrocities, she seems to be in a perfect position to do the right thing by stopping these war crimes in a time when the United States in on an incline, financially. and some of the financial burden will be put onto walstreet, and that is something that the people at the top making bank off of tax dodging corporations are unwilling to allow. Therefore, this act will not be agreeable with the powers that are making fucking gigantic fortunes. Think about it, if you knew your last day was coming soon, would you make decisions that bettered the future of mankind, or would you make decisions that benefitted the few privileged people that run things now, and dictate the horrible fate of a huge number of people not only in the united states, but of innocent people all overt the world?

I don;t think that Hillary Clinton has a solid plan for every major problem in our future, but i think she can (and i hope and pray that she will) make a difference regarding the bombing of foreign countries across the sea and the natural health of the people in this country. In my paper, I will make a list of all of the possible super trusts that are not in favor of the major populous of this country and run things now, that hillary might be able to back stab while she is president, knowing that this is her last chance to make a true, positive difference in the country that she has spent over 30 years being a servant of. I will study her past positive contributions in order to point to reasons why she may be taking this particular position, and i will also, obviously, point to other conspiracy theories that seem to follow a more realistic train of thought than that of the Hillary Clinton campaign and HC herself. I may also try to find other people in history that have made serious sacrifices and how close to their times of death that these sacrifices were made. I will also outline conspiracy theories regarding the JFK assassination and conspiracies regarding the Obama presidency, in regards to his inability to change some things that he had originally hoped to accomplish.

Sep 142016
 

My topic, I’m thinking, is going to be around decisions and decision making throughout our lives from early on in our lives all throughout our adulthood. It’s going to include the evolution of our decisions throughout our lives, i.e. How much control we have over our decisions throughout our lives, the varying degrees of how our decisions impact our lives and the lives of those around us, consequences and hind sights of the decisions that we make, rushing into rash decisions vs highly calculated decisions and everywhere in between, and the severity of impact of our decisions and how it correlates with our age or, more importantly, where we find ourselves in our life.

The articles that I’ve read have been heavily based on enhancing our decisions making process in order to make the best decisions possible. Many of them have focused on group/team decision making and conversations that the teams have surrounding decisions that need to be made. I would like to focus more on personal decisions and the evolution of them along with the impact they have on our lives, and i can see ways of utilizing the team decision making process and applying them to that concept. among the practices of effective decision making is avoid confusing discussions that detracts us from the decision by laying blame on anything or anyone in a predicament that we find ourselves in. it’s more important to focus on the situation and decision that needs to be made. this can obviously apply to a group decision  but can definitely also apply to a personal situation. in my writing, i want to investigate how getting lost in details and blame can effect our decisions, be it positive, negative, or not exactly one or the other.

I have also read the idea that the decisions that we make are a reflection of the values that we hold. This holds up best when the decisions are carefully calculated and all options are weighed. This can bring into the conversation, decisions that we end up regretting, as they may have been made in ignorance of all of our values our values. Perhaps they only take into consideration our value of pride, or what ever, and ignore more core values that we were ignoring because we were so caught up in oner things.

One of the articles brought me to a book that i bought from amazon. The book is about propaganda and how we are coerced into making some decisions through that process. this idea seems totally relevant to the time that we live in and i am thinking that this prospect may play more of a role in my topic than i had originally thought. I will only know once i get the book and start reading.

 

I tried linking some websites to this but it pasted the entire article. . .

Sep 092016
 

There have been only a few instances throughout my life that i have been self motivated to write because, who has time for such things? Usually motivation for writing, for me, comes from a grade. Sure there have been plenty of times that i have been interested in what it is that i was writing for an assignment and it became easy and quite honestly, a down-write pleasure. and yea, other times it’s just a big ole pain in the ass, but i gotta get through it. But aside from being assigned writing, the only other time i feel the need to pick up a pen and write is when i’ve experienced something too big for me to wrap my whole head around. there can be huge variety to this. It could be something like an actual incident that occurred in my life, one that hasn’t yet occurred and may never, questions i have about what it is that’s happening in the day to day life going on around me, or even questions i have in myself or about myself that i either have or don’t have the answers to. And do you think i stop there? Typically i try to (though i’m not always successful) because aside from my basic mantra of a mixture between everyone in the world IS equal and deserves to be treated fairly and also that life is NOT fair, I typically reject the notion that focusing outward does me as much good as focusing closer to myself and the loved ones that surround me.

Writing for me, is like a great organizer of thoughts. it makes me feel more comfortable and able to take on life when i can write out what i know, what i think i know, what i think i want to know, and what i’m ignorant of. in a way, writing forces me to reflect on myself and this helps me to become an improved version of myself. this reflection also aides me in finding possible answers to my questions in a way that i would never be able to accomplish if i just kept it all inside my head. This is why writing is good for me and i need to participate in the activity far more than i do right now. Good thing I’m in Advanced Exposition!